It's ok to wait for the round to complete before leaving when you double up. Of course, playing a bigger stack is a little more difficult.

This was a tricky spot and I don't think your call was wrong. The 2 Q on the board make it very unlikely that villain actually has a Q. In general I'd shove as you did. Nonetheless, considering your incresed stack, a bet/fold flop would also be very reasonable in my opinion.

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Thanks, Dandycal.

I reasoned on the unlikeliness line, but later I thought that if he had a smaller pair he'd have raised preflop, as he was a bit maniac. A call to the BB and to my bet would be a sign of something like suited connectors, ace suited or A-rag. I have to think more about their possible hands.

I reasoned on the unlikeliness line, but later I thought that if he had a smaller pair he'd have raised preflop, as he was a bit maniac. A call to the BB and to my bet would be a sign of something like suited connectors, ace suited or A-rag. I have to think more about their possible hands.

E boa sorte pra vc e seu irmao na sua nova carreira!

Oh, I suspected you were Brazilian, with that nickname of yours =D Muito obrigado!

When you get as much money as 120BB you have already deep stack and should play according to BSS, which is quite hard for SSS player, so if you're not comfortable with postflop it's better to just leave the table. With double stack(40BB) it's still ok to wait to be blinded out, but with 120BB you have to be cautious even when playing KK+ because opponents have a lot of implied odds on you.

This hand is well played. Before the flop you have to raise and on the flop you are heads-up and it's very unlikely the opponent hit a Q here. And (specially if he's aggressive as you said) he can raise many worse hands here, pocket paris 22-99, 5x, flush draw, maybe even overcards such as AK/AJ, hard to say without statistics, but I'm not giving up TT on QQx board. If board would come KKx or AAx then I might have folded, but not on QQx.

It's really bad luck opponent hit his trips when you had double stack, but next time luck will change.

Btw, please remove the results as they are not important for evaluating the hand, but can affect opinion of the players who discuss the hand.